Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of borrowers' quality on the size of market reaction to bank loan announcements in the Chinese financial market, where poor quality borrowers are prevalent and the banking system is highly controlled by the Chinese government....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a credit‐scoring model as an aggregate valuation procedure that integrates various financial and non‐financial factors and thereby improves small to medium‐sized enterprises' (SMEs) knowledge about their default risk....

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to comprehensively uncover antecedents of food shopping behaviour of children in retail stores in India. Children form the pivot of food marketing. They accompany parents on food shopping trips and assist food purchases. Their extent of participation...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify and investigate firm level determinants of the firm's decision on acquisition strategy. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 360 firms across fast growing sectors in India, namely automobile, FMCG and pharmaceutical were selected for six...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to suggest important determinants for helpfulness from the reviews’ product data, review characteristics, and textual characteristics, and identify the more crucial factors among these determinants by using statistical methods. Furthermore, this study...

Purpose – This study aims to examine whether the determinant factors of innovations broadly accepted for traditional firms – the personal traits of the entrepreneurs, the features of the firms and the environment – also influence innovation in social economy companies....

This study employs six Machine Learning methods - Logit, Lasso-Logit, Ridge-Logit, Random Forest, Extreme Gradient Boosting, and an Ensemble - alongside registry data on abortions in Spain from 2011-2019 to predict multiple abortions and assess monetary savings through targeted interventions. We...